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    Clappy Was Here

    in Ask Me

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    On 10/18/2019 at 1:42 PM, Pancake John Lennon said:

    *steps in for the first time in like, two years*? :funny: how are ya lately man?!

    I’m doing alright.  Fairly busy lately but not that bad.

    On 10/18/2019 at 6:27 PM, Happy Halseyween said:

    I started binge watching Living With Yourself today. It’s so good?

    I got my internet fixed over the weekend and bingewatched the first season.  It is pretty good.  Paul Rudd carried a lot of the show, as expected.  But that one episode that was Kate focused was really good too.

    Best and Worst of Entertainment: The 2010’s Decade End Lists

    in New Kelp City

    Posted

    Of all the formats of entertainment in the 2010s, the toughest format for me to review will always be television.

    I don’t know why, it’s just hard for me to describe.  Is it due to trying to find a way to generalize a season of a series?  Or should I highlight certain episodes over others as being impactful or outright awful?  I seriously don’t know what it is.  And it shouldn’t be that hard because the 2010s in entertainment will be fondly looked back at being the best for television.

    Yeah the 2010s to me will be known as the television renaissance.  If there is any format of entertainment that made leaps and bounds in terms of making the biggest change its television.  Streaming services like Netflix and Hulu became household juggernauts.  Television series became much more defined and profound in terms of creativity and storytelling.  I mean how do I define the impact movies and music left on this decade for identity?  Music went through god knows how many phases to define what genre or fad defined the decade.  I mean I guess the 2010s for movies will be best known as the decade of cinematic universes becoming a thing thanks to Marvel, but they are the only studio seeing any true success with that trend.  The 2010s is the year of the TV renaissance certainly.

    So let me try to best review the decade of television becoming an entertainment powerhouse once more.  Let’s start off with the worst list first because even if this was a decade of renovation, there was still plenty of shit I sat through.  But first, one rule I think I should make official for the television lists.  If most of a certain series seasons ran through the 2000s, I’m not counting it towards these lists.  So you won’t be seeing The Office, How I Met Your Mother, or Two and a Half Men for example on either list.  But if it’s a series that ran through practically the entire decade despite starting before the 2010s or was rebooted, then it does qualify.  Therefore, example candidates are The Simpsons, Family Guy, Samurai Jack, and The Big Bang Theory.

    And let me announce how I will be doing these rankings for not just this list, but for all of them.  Because there were so many candidates for all these lists, I’m doing Top and Bottom 20s.  No honorable/dishonorable mentions.  There is plenty to read as is.  Let’s get this ball rolling.

     

    CLAPPY'S TOP TWENTY WORST TELEVISION SHOWS OF THE 2010'S

     

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    The only reason this isn’t any lower is because it doesn’t bother me as much as I know modern seasons bother all of you.

    20. The Simpsons (FOX)

    As practically all of you know, I’ve never been the biggest fan of The Simpsons.  Doesn’t mean I never liked it.  I did.  The Simpsons in its prime was great.  The series is iconic.  When it does eventually end, it will go down as one of the most historic television series of all time.  And for the right seasons too.  While the formula will forever be imitated, the success will never be replicated the way it was for The Simpsons.

    But to quote one of my best friends, who is one of the biggest Simpsons fans I know, “it’s time to put it down like Old Yeller.”  And I couldn’t agree more.  Modern day Simpsons is a shell of itself.  It’s run out of stories to tell.  The characters have run out of room to evolve.  And the only way it gets people to talk about it anymore is through ratings traps, flavorless crossovers, jumping the shark, and terrible attempts at shock value.  That is not The Simpsons I once knew.  I feel bad for anyone who started watching modern Simpsons in the 2010s.  Because they are watching a show that just simply exists and isn’t trying anymore.  Plain and simple.  Next.

     

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    Time to revisit a show that at the beginning of the decade was a cultural phenomenon.  But revisiting it now, I just can’t tolerate it.

    19. Glee (FOX)

    A lot of you probably thought this would be a lot higher.  I’ll be honest.  The first season and some of the second season wasn’t all bad.  The storylines were intriguing enough.  Most of these characters were tolerable.  And then halfway through Season 2 something happened and the show started to seriously get up its own ass.  The characters became caricatures of themselves and the series started to more heavily revolve around doing their song covers.  That was the point the series went from being tolerable to insufferably smug and arrogant.  And it only got worse from that point forward. 

    Around Season 5, it started to feel like Glee was trying to find itself again as pop culture started to move on to bigger better sitcoms.  But the damage was already done.  Viewership plummeted.  Their covers were no longer charting on the Billboard Hot 100.  Barely anybody cared anymore.  And that’s the Glee phenomenon in a nutshell.  It was a thing.  An insufferably smug show that began and ended fine enough, but for most of its run was buying its own hype and was unbearable because of it.  Moving on.

     

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    And to think, this was my number two best show of the year not too long ago.  That’s how drastically bad this series got in record time.

    18. 13 Reasons Why (Netflix)

    If it wasn’t for that first season, this series would be incredibly lower than it is now.  That title should be renamed 13 Ways to Botch a Great Show Fast.  The first season told a great story about suicidal awareness and future prevention.  And then it became an overdramatic, condescending, shitfest that tried to make us sympathetic for a rapist, make our main hero incredibly tough to like, and a recently deceased person of suicide into just another teenage girl.  Which you know, this show is meant for teenagers.  But after a first season where I was on the edge of my seat telling this moving, everything sure went to shit fast.  I would do anything just to get out of my seat and when I was sitting down, I was often in disgust.  Fuck this show and it can’t end soon enough.  Fuck it fuck it fuck it.

     

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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ysZk_KMXUE

    CSI.  One of the defining criminal procedural series of our lifetime.  This was the highest rated show for many years in the 2000s.  And for as repetitive as these series can be, I kind of liked it.  The crimes were far more intriguing than shows like NCIS or Law & Order.  It tried to appeal to more than just the 35+ crowd and actually worked.

    And when shows get that successful, the spin-offs come out in full force.  CSI fatigue came in full effect in the back half of the 2000s as Miami and New York were just the same show with a different cast.  CSI ended its fifteen year run in 2015 after going through multiple leads, lack of direction, and a declining audience.  But damn if CBS didn’t try to capitalize on the formula one more time.

    17. CSI: Cyber (CBS)

    Now I will give CBS some slight credit for the idea behind this spin-off.  It wasn’t the same show, different city like Miami and New York were.  Social media is definitely huge right now.  Making a cyber-criminal investigation squad is a new take on this tired formula.  But the episode ideas are just so laughable.  Everything about this show is just lame.  Everyone involved with making this clearly have no clue what to do with this. 

    Every episode I watched felt like they tested a focus group.  The pilot is about investigating the web because infants are being abducted and auctioned off.  Correlation?  No shit.  Selfies are a thing.  Let’s have an episode where young abducted girls are keeping their social media pages up to date somehow.  That’s stretching our facts of believability.  Every episode felt like this.  The original CSI use to be able to grab the attention of all age groups by being slick and cool.  This is just dated and lame.  All I’ll remember about this show ten years from now is that Bow Wow was part of the main cast.  Yep you can’t get more late 90s/early 2000s in 2015-2016 then by having Bow Wow as one of the main lead actors.  Next.

     

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    For nearly the past decade, I’ve seen pop culture talk about how influential 90s Nickeldeon was.  It’s why modern Nick is heavily relying on nostalgia now more than ever before to bring the channel back to the forefront of family programming.   I don’t blame them for doing so.  It is getting people talking about the channel whether it be for better or worse or both.

    To me, Nickelodeon has two huge eras in their history.  The first being self-explanatory as I’ve already mentioned it.  But I want to focus on an era that I think people will look back on nostalgically ten years from now.

    Say what you want about Dan Schneider in the #MeToo era.  I fully believe the man is a massive creep.  But to separate the man from his art, his era of live action sitcoms are going to be looked back on positively because he had so many huge hits for Nickelodeon.  I’m already seeing Nick Rewind’s about Victorious and that only ended five years ago.  I think ten years from now, the youth of today will feel even more nostalgic for all the great live-action sitcoms they grew up with the way 90s kids are nostalgic for their Nicktoons of yesteryear.  Even this one, for as much as I hate it:

    16. Sam & Cat (Nickelodeon)

    On paper, this was a great idea.  Both iCarly and Victorious were coming to their respective ends.  Their stars were getting too expensive to keep around.  Schneider badly wanted to capitalize off both successful shows.  Take two of their best supporting main stars, who also were basically best friends.  Give them their own show to lead.  Let the money pile up.

    But the execution couldn’t have been more awkward.  For starters, Sam Puckett playing the straight man/woman to anyone is a terrible idea.  Her character on iCarly was known for being short tempered and watching her put up with Cat Valentine’s increasingly annoying stupidity just led to hours and hours of infuriating television.

    Okay, so what about some great supporting characters to bounce off our two leads?  I couldn’t name a single one off the top of my head.  There was a little curly haired kid who I can’t remember for the life of me what his quirks were.  There was a dumbed down tall guy that somehow made Cat look like more of a genius.  And Cat has a cool grandma.  Oh yeah and Sam and Cat were babysitters.  Yay?

    The only other thing I want to add onto this is that there’s a reason Nickelodeon only plays rewinds of the episodes where it had guest stars from iCarly or Victorious.  That’s saying something about how big a misfire this was.  Moving on.

     

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    15. Legends of Chamberlain Heights (Comedy Central)

    Quite possibly the worst South Park rip-off on a network that has been badly trying to find their next South Park.  It’s a damn shame to see talented names like Jay Pharoah and Tiffany Haddish be involved with a show this bad.  Comedy Central.  Fix your shit.  Next.

     

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    I think this is going to come as a surprise to a lot of you, but you won’t be seeing The Big Bang Theory on this list.  And you won’t be seeing it on the best list either.

    The Big Bang Theory was a show I use to love for its first four seasons before it became flavorless and uninteresting.  But when I really thought about composing this list, I just couldn’t place it on the worst list proper.  Because at the end of the day, one thing did save it from being on it.  Character progression.

    Sure the show ran on far too long and yes these plots got repetitive and the jokes predictable.  But these characters actually continued to get interesting when I forced myself to finish what I started with this show.  Twelve seasons was too many yes, but I couldn’t place it on my list proper since I disliked it, but I didn’t outright hate it all this decade.  What I’m saying is the spin-off is shit.

    14. Young Sheldon (CBS)

    Let me repeat something I’ve asked before.  Did ANYONE ask for a Sheldon spin-off?  I thought it was universally agreed upon that Sheldon’s shtick got old eight years ago.  I didn’t need to see this little shit fail to make it even remotely endearing.

    Seriously don’t really have too much else to say about this one except it’s an eight year old impersonating the latter seasons of Sheldon much to the annoyance of every one.  This kid is no Jim Parsons, who I do think is a good actor despite how tired I got of Sheldon Cooper.  Otherwise, this is just The Middle or Malcolm in the Middle or The Goldbergs or basically any of those dysfunctional family series that have been done to death at this point.  Not all of them are bad mind you, I like all three shows I listed.  But it’s a done to death sitcom trope that is really starting to get old. 

    What makes Young Sheldon done to death is that it basically wants you to associate with Young Sheldon and nobody else.  All the other characters are straight men to this insufferable shit and practically none of them have any real defining character traits that we can associate with except being related to Sheldon in some way. 

    The Big Bang Theory may be gone, but it will take years and years until it’s lasting influence will be bazing-gone forever.

     

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    Oh man…so close to being so bad that it’s good.  It just missed the mark.

    13. Real Rob (Netflix)

    I’m keeping this one short and sweet.  Ever wondered what Curb Your Enthusiasm would be like from the perspective of Rob Schneider?  Except not good?  Or even remotely funny?  Netflix.  They greenlight anything.

     

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    Okay we are getting closer and closer to the halfway point of this Top 20.  I don’t know how many of my opinions here today have been deemed controversial at this point.  But I think this next choice will be a real headscratcher.  This is personal.

    12. The Garfield Show (Cartoon Network)

    Now I know what you are thinking.  The Garfield Show?  That bland cartoon show based off the 40+ year old comic strip?  One of the worst shows of the decade?  Yes.  I know it has its fans around here.  And there is nothing unwatchably bad about it.  It went eight seasons for a reason.  But this is a case for me of bad being the absence of anything good.

    There is not a single thing I can recommend about this show being the HUGE fan of the comic strips that I have been for all my life.  I’ve seen every Garfield property imaginable.  Yes even the shitty two live action movies with Bill Murray.  Those weren’t good either, but I can at least remember them for being the shitty family comedies they were.

    I don’t remember a damn thing about this show every time I watched it.  This is one of those rare shows that even if I had seen a previous episode, I couldn’t tell you a damn thing about it because this show goes in one ear and out the other.  The characters are stale, hollow versions of themselves.  Especially Jon’s VA, who I’m convinced is an actual computer because he’s unexpressive as fuck.  The plots are either too bland to be worthy of eleven minutes to being too out of left field to make any sense. 

    You have over forty years of material and this is the best you can do?  Give me a fucking break.  This show to me is what Mondays are to Garfield.

     

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    And to think that I defended the first season as pleasantly nostalgic.  Now its change the fucking channel levels of infuriating.

    11. Fuller House (Netflix)

    I’ve openly admitted to thinking Full House as being unbearable levels of cheese in the past.  That’s why I was absolutely taken off guard by how much I didn’t completely hate the first season of the spin-off.  And then it continued.  And it got even worse.  I don’t think anyone involved with this could read a room if they tried.  DJ and Steve don’t have any chemistry whatsoever anymore.  Kimmy Gibbler and her annoying husband aren’t anywhere close to being compatible.  Stephanie and Kimmy’s brother are nowhere near close to being good for each other.  The kids are caricatures.  All this show has going for it is 80s/90s nostalgia.  And that can only get you so far these days before it gets infuriating.

    The original Full House may be dated levels of cheese, but Fuller House feels like its trolling you with dangerously hot levels of cheese.  Yet it has one of the biggest properties in Netflix’s libraries of “original series”.  It may be ending this year, but I doubt it will be the last we see of the “She-Wolf Pack”.  woo.

     

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    Top ten time.  And what better way to start this with the hot take of all hot takes.  I fucking loathe Wil & Grace.

    10. Will & Grace (NBC)

    I just flat out hate this show.  I was never a fan of it back during its peak popularity in the early 2000s.  And I especially hate it now in its second wind revival in the back half of the 2010s.  I mean I get why NBC decided to revive this show.  After both Friends and Seinfeld ended, this was the most bankable sitcom the network had in its arsenal.  None of their main cast was really doing anything and they were all already typecasted in these roles for the rest of their television lives.  So why not make themselves more money and go for the easy reunion?

    I’ll tell you why.  Because I can’t stand a single one of these characters.  I appreciate everything this series originally did for being one of the first successful major shows with gay principal characters.  But that doesn’t mean said characters are remotely likeable.  One thing I’ve learned about myself from doing these reviews is that I hate when characters go to their full extremities all the time without evolving their characters and that’s exactly what all four of the main cast is.  One quirk or extremity exemplified to the hundredth degree.  That is Will, Grace, Karen, and Jack to me.  There quirks are exemplified to the hundredth degree to the point that it is hard to find anything likeable about these characters anymore.

    And that’s especially true since it has been revived.  These characters have become caricatures of said extremities.  My soon to be wife may adore this show and these characters, but I can’t stand a single minute of this show anymore.  It’s not the mid 2000s anymore guys.  Go support better shows with gay principal characters.  There are far more out there that are better quality.  #StreamEuphoria

     

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    …if Donald Trump watched sitcom television regularly instead of hate binging CNN or MSNBC, this would be his favorite show.

    9. Last Man Standing (ABC/FOX)

    I hate to say that about someone I use to grow up watching and admiring in Tim Allen, but I have to call a spade a spade.  This is one of the worst sitcoms I’ve ever sat through.  It’s practically the same joke and same story every episode.  Tim Allen is an old conservative man who doesn’t understand the people of today.  And then insert the most predictable plots to come from it.

    I can understand why there is an audience for this sitcom.  Hell I understand why FOX decided to revive this.  It is absolutely true that Hollywood tends to be more left winged.  The right wing need programming that can be catered to their demographic too.  And that’s what this program has basically become.  Conservative comedy for the right.  But that’s not why I hate this.

    I hate this because it isn’t ambitious enough to be anything else.  It feels like its political agenda is all it has going for it.  And as someone who is tired of complacency being okay, that’s what this show has become.  Complacent.  And that’s problematic for me. 

    I love Home Improvement.  It wasn’t ground breaking or anything, but it was one of the first sitcoms I ever really got into.  Tim Allen deserves better than this dull, uneventful slog.

     

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    I heard this show got better from some people.  Good for it.  I don’t root for shows to consistently stay bad.  Hell, even I came around on Teen Titans Go after thinking it was one of the worst things for two years.  But I have my limits on the amount of shit I can manage to sit through before calling it straight up shit.

    8. Pickle and Peanut (Disney)

    And that’s what Pickle and Peanut is.  Shit.  The voice acting is bad.  The animation is fucking terrible.  The stories make no fucking sense.  Everything I’ve seen from this series is utterly incompetent.  I still have trauma from the pilot and the following episodes I saw from that weren’t necessarily better.  Look I could go over every single what the fuck concept idea this series conjured up, but I’ll just generally summarize what this show wanted to be.

    I don’t think many of you will be surprised with me saying that Regular Show is one of my many contenders for my best of the decade list.  I’ve countlessly praised this show’s originality and clever humor.  The difference between Regular Show and Pickle and Peanut goes beyond one being great and the other being fucking terrible.  Regular Show commits to their bizarre episode ideas and goes all out to subvert your expectations.  Pickle and Peanut don’t have any idea what the fuck they are doing.  It’s like 66ers The Monroe Show became a cheaply animated cartoon trying to capitalize the success of one of the more original animated series of the 2010s.  Only difference being that it has the backing of Disney.  Next.

     

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    HOLY CRAP LOIS!  THIS SHOW IS UNWATCHABLE AGAIN!  HEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHE!

    7. Family Guy (FOX)

    Season 16 is the only season I would even consider good.  Otherwise, this decade was fucking terrible for Family Guy.  If it wasn’t for that one good-ish season, this show would be a lot lower than it placed.

    That’s it.  No seriously, let’s move on to the next one.  What were you guys expecting me to give Family Guy a longer thrashing?  I mean the team involved with Family Guy isn’t trying anymore, so why should I go even harder than I already have with this on my year end lists?  Next.

     

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    Speaking of not trying anymore, Seth MacFarlane can also apply said sentiments towards this live action sitcom.

    6. Dads (FOX)

    Want to know what modern day Family Guy looks like in live action form?  Look no further.  Intentional racism?  Check.  Unlikeable characters?  Check.  Wasting a talented cast on F-level shlock?  Definitely a check.  I feel really bad for Giovanni Ribisi, Brenda Song, and Martin Mull in particular.  Not so much for Seth Green since he keeps appearing in Seth MacFarlane productions often.  But yeah, Dads is just a fucking disaster.  It keeps playing off the same “shock value” laughs Family Guy does that no one finds remotely funny anymore.  And surprisingly, most of the intentional racist humor doesn’t come from the old two white men.  I heard Seth MacFarlane’s “The Orville” is actually somewhat good.  Not from what little I’ve seen, but it has to be better than this trainwreck.  This show was so bad that it holds a rare 0% Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes.  That’s not nearly as common for television series as it is for movies, so that’s really saying something.  Can’t top that fact.  Next.

     

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    When I talk about my movies list, I’ll more than likely mention how Marvel ruled this decade.  And I don’t know who would disagree with that.  They started the cinematic universe phenomenon.  They made lesser known heroes into household names.  They just kept setting the bar higher and higher on how we viewed our superhero entertainment.  Superhero fatigue should have become a thing by now and that hasn’t happened yet because Marvel found ways to prevent that.  Outside of a few properties that they were sharing with other non-Disney studios, they didn’t have a single bomb to their name….well except this short lived series. 

    5. Marvel’s Inhumans (ABC)

    Oh yeah, how could I forget this piece of shit?  This series was so bad that Disney is already making plans to remake this not even two years after they bombed the first time.

    This is probably the most disappointing series to make this worst list.  Not a single element of this show is redeemable.  The CGI is terrible.  These characters are so flat it hurts.  The writing is a mess.  Even the direction is bad.  I can’t think of a single thing worth praising about this big botch of a series.  Every episode I watched, I thought to myself “well this sucks, maybe the next will be better?”  And not a single time was I proven right.

    It’s one thing to be flat out bad.  It’s another thing entirely to be bland and unwatchable.  Next.

     

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    You know what trend I hope dies in the 2020s?  Turning internet based sites or videos into full fledged series.  And I think you all know where this is going….BREADWINNERS SUCKS!

    4. Breadwinners (Nickelodeon)

    At first I thought this was fascinating levels of terrible, but after committing myself to try more than just one episode, I can’t believe this led the age 2-11 demographic for a few weeks.  This might be the worst Nicktoon ever conceived.  And that’s saying something from a network that gave us Mr. Meaty, Butt Ugly Martians, and FanBoy and Chum Chum.

    Breadwinners is the worst because there is not a single thing worth recommending about it whatsoever.  The animation is atrocious, the writing is first draft levels of awful, and I absolutely despise the voice acting.  It is ear bleeding.  SwaySway and Buhdeuce (SERIOUSLY WHAT EVEN ARE THESE FUCKING NAMES) are easily the least likeable lead duo I’ve ever come across.  They are annoying little shits that don’t have any redeeming qualities whatsoever.

    I think you all know how awful this show is so I’m not going to go that deep into detail.  Its levels of bad are something I don’t see Nickelodeon outdoing anytime soon.  There are much better animations on YouTube that could have gotten the full length animation deal to.  Why to these bunches of Breadlosers?  (Those character names won’t ever not infuriate me to end)

     

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    I’ve said some pretty harsh things over the past decade about Fox’s Sunday animation domination line up.  The Simpsons is uninspired, Family Guy is unwatchable, Bordertown doesn’t justify its own existence, and so much more.  When in reality, none of these were the worst when it came to quality.  Let’s fight the real enemy, shall we?

    3. Allen Gregory (FOX)

    This is the worst thing Jonah Hill has ever been involved with.  And that’s saying something for someone who starred in the bad Happy Madison stoner comedy Strange Wilderness.  The animation is fucking awful.  It pisses me off how many bad animated series this decade tried to replicate South Park and its cheap animation budget.  But what they were all missing was the jokes and cleverness to back up such shitty animation.  The characters are all awful.  Every single one of them.  No redeeming qualities whatsoever.  And the stories they gave these characters are all outright terrible.  The first non-pilot episode was about Allen trying to seduce a principal who was at least ten times his age.  Need I say more?

    This show may have lasted only seven episodes, but that is more than enough to classify this show as one of the worst animated series I’ve ever seen.

     

    Spoiler

    We may be living in a television renaissance, but that doesn’t mean we hit the retread well a couple times.  We also got our fair share of remakes, reboots, spin-offs, and sequel series.  Some of them hits.  Some of them misses.  But at the end of the day, not too many of them made it onto my list.  Too prove that you’re really out of television ideas, you could always fully commit to making a sitcom based off one of the biggest punching bags in the entertainment industry.

    2. Rob! (CBS)

    No seriously.  Whose bright idea was it to give a sitcom to Rob Schnei….don’t actually answer this.  We all know it was Adam Sandler and his buddies at Happy Madison.

    I think it is well documented how big of a punching bag Rob Schneider has become.  I don’t understand why anyone would give this guy a platform to be a leading man in anything.  Especially in this intentionally trash sitcom about him marrying into a large Mexican family.  Seriously do I need to say any more about why and how this was trash?  You all know this led to a bunch of intentionally racist jokes about how white people don’t understand Hispanic culture.  What really surprised me was that this had an actual audience its debut week before thankfully getting cancelled ten episodes in.

    I hope we leave Adam Sandler’s best friend out of here for good in the 2020s.  We shouldn’t have to put up with this hack for another ten years.  Let alone five.

     

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    To define the worst show of this decade for me was tough.  As you can tell, there were A LOT of worthy contenders for this title.  But as always when it comes to my personal feelings for any list, which candidate best exemplified that bad is the absence of good.  Well after a lot of hard thinking, I knew which one was the best representative of such a trait.  And that was hard for me to say since this show use to be so near and dear to my heart.  But it won my worst of the year award once.  And no matter how many times the people in charge try to hard reboot it, it only got worse and worse.  And that’s reality…

    1. The Fairly Oddparents (Nickelodeon)

    Seriously it was hard to justify placing anything else at this position.  I mean correct me if I’m wrong you guys, but The Fairly Oddparents was rebooted THREE TIMES in the 2010s to add Foop, Sparky, and Chloe as new characters to freshen this show up.  AND IT WAS STILL FUCKING TERRIBLE.

    Were there good episodes this decade?  Probably.  I couldn’t tell you off the top of my head though.  But not enough to justify its existence this decade.  Hell, according to Jjs, FOP practically became the Timmy’s Dad/Crocker/Cosmo show at one point.  If those were the three characters that got mostly plot points over…oh gee, I don’t know, TIMMY FREAKING TURNER, then why not just do a spin-off?  Because this series is about Timmy using his fairies to make changes towards his life.  Not about those weirdos on a train.

    I can’t think of a single thing to recommend about Fairly Oddparents in the 2010s.  It went from being one of my favorite Nicktoons to selling out any artistic integrity the series once had for more viewership.  No amounts of new lead characters can lead to improving your quality.  To improve your quality, that requires actual effort.  Something the Fairly Oddparents once had put forth.  And now it’s gone for good.  Maybe Butch will reboot this once more for OAXIS if that ever gets off the ground.  Who knows and who cares.  All of my precious memories of this show are basically gone now.  What’s a little more salt to rub into the wounds?

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    And so is FOP in the 2010s.

     

    Thank you to those of you who took your time to read all this.  I know it was a lot, but I had a lot to say.  Hope you all enjoyed!  The Best of the 2010s will come in another month or so.  

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    Best and Worst of Entertainment: The 2010’s Decade End Lists

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    Just a quick heads up.  The first of my multiple lists is almost done.  It will be the Top 20 Worst Television Series of the 2010s.  Just doing some proofreading and final revisions since I want to make sure I didn't forget anything else that could technically qualify for this list in particular.  Granted, I didn't watch every show from this decade since that's practically impossible.  But I made sure I knocked out some of the ones that have been recommended to me for years now.  So yeah, the worst list is coming in a few days.  The best list will probably take another month or so with my wedding coming in two weeks.  My free time won't be nearly as available, but I will get to it when I can. 

     

    Also, to add onto another list I want to do for this decade end project, I thought I'd also announce I'm going to a Top 20 Best Albums list.  I usually avoid doing album year end lists since I don't listen to nearly enough albums in their entirety to really justify doing a Best/Worst album of the year list.  But I think I've listened to enough albums this decade to do a proper one.  Might do a worst list, we'll see on that front.  But that will also come around towards the end of the year with the songs lists too.

     

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